Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 2 | What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’ |
| 3 | The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks . |
| 4 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 5 | But I 've got , what I 've got ta do is repair that other coop |
| 6 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 7 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 8 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 9 | What it must now do is issue some clear guidelines on the manner in which doctors involve themselves — directly or indirectly — in promoting unproved remedies to the general public . |
| 10 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 11 | What countless new churches have done is to take these helpful headings and develop what goes on under each one in a way that is flexible . |
| 12 | What Lednor and Versloot have done is to unify these unrelated chemical curiosities by suggesting one underlying mechanism . |
| 13 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 14 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 15 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 16 | ‘ All we ask them to do is to visit any Royal Bank Branch , answer a few questions — and we 'll provide a quotation within three days , ’ said Norman . |
| 17 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 18 | All we have to do is send some nice flowers to each of his girlfriends . |
| 19 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 20 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 21 | Seasonal migrators could in principle orient themselves by a simple sense of direction ; all they need to do is obey some such rule as fly two hundred miles south' or a more complicated series of directions . |
| 22 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 23 | What God wants to do is take these little deaths in our lives and turn them into fruitfulness . |
| 24 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 25 | Well , er , wh what we want to do , what we want to do is to relate this manifest content that you 've told us to what , what 's the other thing ? |
| 26 | He said of Lynda Chalker , Foreign Office Minister responsible for foreign aid programmes : ‘ All she is doing is giving these poor people the chance to breed more children who will suffer the same horrible fate as their parents — death by starvation . ’ |
| 27 | All you do is to move that decimal point two places . |
| 28 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 29 | I puke again , but it 's just like my tummy s being squeezed and all I do is make this coughing noise and nothing comes out . |
| 30 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |